Become a smart city with connected lighting

CityTouch is a secure, connected lighting management platform that is helping cities become more livable, efficient and sustainable.

CityTouch provides full visibility and control of your city’s street lighting from a centralized dashboard, allowing you to securely monitor light points, set schedules, and adjust light levels on demand. Data encryption and two-factor authentication ensure the software meets the most stringent security standards.

Easy to use web applications provide a complete view of your connected street lights, enabling you to manage workflows and deploy maintenance crews only when and where needed. System data gives you near real-time insights into energy use and cost, helping you plan and schedule more efficiently.

CityTouch Ready luminaires from Philips integrate seamlessly with the CityTouch platform. Your existing luminaires can also be made CityTouch ready with a node or connector kit, or you can select luminaires from our list of certified partners. Whichever CityTouch Ready luminaires you choose, CityTouch gives you complete flexibility with open standards and easy integration with other intelligent platforms and IoT devices, ensuring you keep pace with smart city trends – now and in the future.

CityTouch benefits at a glance

Improved decision making

Manage lighting, measure energy use, monitor system health and diagnose problems from a single intuitive dashboard.

Rapid return on investment

Switching to LED street lighting immediately reduces energy costs. Combining LED with the insights into usage and remote diagnostics available from the CityTouch lighting management system, saves you even more and helps recoup your investment quickly.

Flexible with open standards

CityTouch integrates with any asset management system and any type of luminaire giving you freedom to choose the vendor that works best for your city. Certified vendors provide CityTouch Ready luminaires, which connect automatically to the CityTouch system.

Future proof and secure
This is an open system that supports sensors, cameras and other IoT devices to enable future smart services. With dedicated user roles and fully encrypted data flows, the system meets the highest standards for security. Regular software updates ensure your system is always up-to-date.

Upgrade or expand easily

Easy to use and commission, this secure system works with both new and existing luminaires to connect all of your city’s smart lighting. For existing street lights that are not CityTouch compatible, simply mount a CityTouch connector kit (EU) or node (Americas/NZ/AU) to each pole.

What’s possible with CityTouch

CityTouch is a platform for managing public LED street lighting.

1. One city, one platform

CityTouch is a software-based management system for your city’s connected infrastructure. Using a convenient centralized dashboard, you can manage your city’s connected street lighting and systems securely and remotely via the network of your choice, including standard mobile networks.

2. Visibility and control

The CityTouch connect app shows the status of every light point on a map in near real time with alerts notifying you of any outage. You can adjust or preset light levels for all connected street lights securely and remotely, and monitor energy usage of each light point to verify energy bills.

3. Broad connectivity portfolio

As an end-to-end street lighting management system, CityTouch supports new and retrofit approaches. Existing street lights can be made CityTouch compatible by using the CityTouch connector kit (EU only) or connector node (US,NZ,AU only), while the CityTouch Ready partner program lets certified vendors provide compatible luminaires, resulting in a fully open platform that is more efficient, flexible and easy to adapt to your requirements.

5. Insights

The CityTouch workflow app helps you identify further opportunities to improve operations and save cost with easily generated reports, rich data visualizations and analytics showing you how your city’s lighting system is performing.

How it works

CityTouch is an end-to-end street lighting management system. For more information on any of these components, download one of the brochures below.

CityTouch portfolio

With an intuitive user interface and stringent security standards, your CityTouch platform is scalable to fit your needs and gives you complete visibility and control of your entire lighting system.

CityTouch connect app

Manage street lights remotely, monitor luminaire status, including failure notifications, and measure energy use in near real time using a standard web browser.

Connectivity options

Individual light point control

Group light point control

CityTouch Ready luminaires

Luminaires labeled as CityTouch Ready are designed for seamless plug and play connectivity. They automatically establish a connection, auto-locate on the map and support automated data upload into the CItyTouch system. Next to Philips CItyTouch Ready luminaires, customers can pick from a broad range of products, independent of the vendor of brand.

CityTouch connectivity devices

For existing luminaires, use the connector kit (EU) or the connector node (Americas, NZ, AU) to enable plug-and-play connectivity.

Group light point control

Cabinet-based group connectivity

Connect a group of your installed street lights through a power line to a segment controller, which connects to the CityTouch software via the internet.

CityTouch Ready partner program

The CityTouch Ready partner program allows you to reap the benefits of connected lighting management while maintaining the freedom to choose your own luminaire vendor.

The CityTouch Ready partner program is available to all luminaire vendors. Any vendor wishing to become a CItyTouch Ready partner needs to complete the certification process to ensure that all CityTouch Ready luminaires are truly plug-and-play and deliver the same ease of use.